Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

Whaling Canoe

1-2-X-4 (12.8)-a035943
Item
ca. 2000

Part of William McLennan (MOA Curator) fonds

Image shows a whaling canoe carved by artist Tim Paul (Nuu-chah-nulth).

Whale masks on display in Montréal

132-1-C-A-a040452
Item
1969 or 1970

Part of MOA General Media collection

Whale masks on display in Montréal for the Musem of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".

Whale hunters model on display in Montréal

132-1-C-A-a040552
Item
1969 or 1970

Part of MOA General Media collection

Whale hunters model by Mungo Martin on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".

Western Indigenous Family 508.

37-a060252a
Item
[ca. 1921]

Part of A.A. Kingscote Collection

Postcard depicts a group of people sitting under a shelter structure. Verso of postcard indicates that the image was photographed by Byron Harmon.

Weaving display

132-1-C-C-a041610
Item
[197-?]

Part of MOA General Media collection

Display of weaving techniques, possibly of Tlingit peoples, from an unidentified museum, possibly the American Museum of Natural History.

Wasgo sculpture on display in Montréal

132-1-C-A-a040367
Item
1969 or 1970

Part of MOA General Media collection

A Wasgo sculpture from the Museum of Anthropology on display in Montréal for the Northwest coast exhibit of "Man and His World".

Wasgo sculpture on display in Montréal

132-1-C-A-a040369
Item
1969 or 1970

Part of MOA General Media collection

A Wasgo sculpture from the Museum of Anthropology on display in Montréal for the Northwest coast exhibit of "Man and His World".

Wasgo sculpture on display in Montréal

132-1-C-A-a040368
Item
1969 or 1970

Part of MOA General Media collection

A Wasgo sculpture from the Museum of Anthropology on display in Montréal for the Northwest coast exhibit of "Man and His World".

Visitors admire masks on display in Montréal

132-1-C-A-a040517
Item
1969 or 1970

Part of MOA General Media collection

Visitors admire masks on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest coast exhibit for "Man and His World".

Village site, Anthony Island

51-01-29-a039467
Item

Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds

Village remains in forest, Anthony Island

51-01-29-a039480
Item

Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds

View of tipis

22-2-a032856
Item
c.1920

Part of Fred Ryckman fonds

View of several tipis, including some without covers. At least one structure appears on the left side of the image. Brush and hills are visible in the distance.

Fred Ryckman

View of the Great Hall from the O'Brian Gallery

132-1-C-C-a041569
Item
1976?

Part of MOA General Media collection

View of the Great Hall from the O'Brian Gallery in the Museum of Anthropology. A carving of an ancestor figure is visible on the viewer's right and a model totem pole on the viewer's left.

View of the Great Hall from the O'Brian Gallery

132-1-C-C-a041568
Item
1976?

Part of MOA General Media collection

View of the Great Hall from the O'Brian Gallery in the Museum of Anthropology. A carving of an ancestor figure is visible on the viewer's right.

View of the Great Hall from Gallery 3

132-1-C-C-a041776
Item
[197-?]

Part of MOA General Media collection

View of the Great Hall from Gallery 3 (now known as the O'Brian Gallery).

View of the Bill Reid Rotunda

132-1-C-C-a041781
Item
[197-?]

Part of MOA General Media collection

View of what is now called the Bill Reid Rotunda. Instead of Raven and The First Men on display here, a Haida house frontal totem pole is on display. This pole was transferred to the Museum of Anthropology from Tanoo in 1954.